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Octavia Spencer Says The Assist Costar Sissy Spacek ‘Really’ Remembered Her After Interning on Her Movie at 17

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Mandatory Credit: Photo by Matt Sayles/AP/Shutterstock (6257198ba) Viola Davis, Octavia Spencer, Sissy Spacek Viola Davis, left, Octavia Spencer, center, and Sissy Spacek are seen backstage after accepting the award for outstanding performance by a cast in a motion picture for "The Help" at the 18th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards on in Los Angeles. Viola Davis also won the award for outstanding performance by a female actor in a leading role for "The Help SAG Awards Insider, Los Angeles, USA

Obligatory Credit score: Photograph by Matt Sayles/AP/Shutterstock (6257198ba) Viola Davis, Octavia Spencer, Sissy Spacek Viola Davis, left, Octavia Spencer, middle, and Sissy Spacek are seen backstage after accepting the award for excellent efficiency by a solid in a movement image for “The Assist” on the 18th Annual Display screen Actors Guild Awards on in Los Angeles. Viola Davis additionally gained the award for excellent efficiency by a feminine actor in a number one function for “The Assist SAG Awards Insider, Los Angeles, USA

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Octavia Spencer and her The Help costar Sissy Spacek go means again.

The Oscar winner revealed on an episode of the WTF with Marc Maron podcast launched final week that Spacek had “actually” remembered Spencer earlier than they starred within the 2011 movie The Assist collectively.

Spencer had beforehand labored as an intern on the 1990 movie The Lengthy Stroll Residence, starring Spacek and Whoopi Goldberg, at age 17.

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THE HELP, from left: Bryce Dallas Howard, Sissy Spacek, Octavia Spencer, 2011. ph: Dale Robinette/©Walt Disney Studios Movement Footage/Courtesy Everett Assortment

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“I used to be an intern, they usually paid me 100 {dollars} per week as an intern. And I set to work within the extras casting division. And I had a lot enjoyable entertaining the extras,” Spencer recalled of her time engaged on the film whereas capturing on location in Alabama.

“It was a lot enjoyable. However I, , obtained to fulfill Sissy. After which to work together with her once more on The Assist, it was so loopy,” she mentioned.

“However she did not bear in mind you?” host Marc Maron requested the Hidden Figures star.

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“She truly did. She did, she did. And I reminded her,” Spencer continued. “We talked about her daughter as a result of Schuyler [Fisk] was 3 when she did The Lengthy Stroll Residence. It was fairly wonderful, truly.”

“It is attention-grabbing to return full circle like that and truly have the ability to share that story once more with Sissy,” Maron famous.

“With Sissy and with Whoopi when The Assist got here out,” Spencer added.

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Launched in 2011, The Assist follows a white Mississippi lady (Emma Stone), who interviews Black girls about their time serving white households as maids. The movie additionally starred Jessica Chastain, Allison Janney, Viola Davis and Cicely Tyson.

Spencer gained the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her flip because the rebellious maid Minny Jackson, whereas Spacek, 73, performed Mrs. Walters, an older lady who had a gentle spot for Minny after she beforehand labored for Walters in her nursing residence.

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